Trump EPA Takes Aim at Climate Rules, Including in Trucking

Mar 24, 2025 at 03:49 PM CST
The Trump administration is launching a sweeping overhaul of U.S. environmental mandates in a campaign it billed as the “biggest deregulatory action” of its kind in U.S. history. The Environmental Protection Agency said March 12 that it will “reconsider” a host of Obama- and Biden-era regulations ranging from chemical safety to pollution curbs as it makes good on President Donald Trump’s pledge to speed U.S. energy development. It also described the effort as “historic actions” that “will roll back trillions in regulatory costs and hidden taxes on U.S. families.” Among EPA’s most consequential moves is its plan to revisit the Obama administration’s so-called endangerment finding that is the legal foundation for most EPA climate change rules. The agency said it also plans to reconsider any actions underpinned by the 2009 determination that carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases threaten the public health.

Mar 24, 2025 at 03:49 PM CST

The Trump administration is launching a sweeping overhaul of U.S. environmental mandates in a campaign it billed as the “biggest deregulatory action” of its kind in U.S. history.

The Environmental Protection Agency said March 12 that it will “reconsider” a host of Obama- and Biden-era regulations ranging from chemical safety to pollution curbs as it makes good on President Donald Trump’s pledge to speed U.S. energy development. It also described the effort as “historic actions” that “will roll back trillions in regulatory costs and hidden taxes on U.S. families.”

Among EPA’s most consequential moves is its plan to revisit the Obama administration’s so-called endangerment finding that is the legal foundation for most EPA climate change rules. The agency said it also plans to reconsider any actions underpinned by the 2009 determination that carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases threaten the public health.